Re: [Monotone-devel] Monotone upgrade policy for the SQLite copy?

[Markus Schiltknecht]

Hi,

Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> As Monotone is already using its own build-environment

..which is a bad thing(tm), which we want to get rid of, IMO...

> for building the
> sqlite/*.c files we instead actually can switch from sqlite/*.[ch] to
> just the sqlite3.[ch] files from the SQLite "amalgamation" distribution.

As far as I understand, the point of amalgamation is, that there's only 
one preprocessed C file.

> Fully backward compatible on-disk format will be not possible in the
> long-term, so as long as a dump/restore is still possible everything
> should be fine.

This is an SQL database - they cannot drop dump/restore upgrading 
possibility without loosing most users ;-)

> Ok, I volunteer and will try to upgrade and test Monotone with SQLite 3.5.x

Very cool, thanks! And good luck!

Markus